Clothes-drier



(Model.)

0. GOODYER 81W. MORSE.

ULOTHESDRI'ERM No. 334,656. I Patented Jan} 19, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES GOODYER AND W'ILLIAM MORSE, OF WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,656, dated January 19, 1886.

Application filed February 24, 1885. Serial No. 156,717. (Model.)

T 0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

Beitknown that we, CHARLES GooDYER and WILLIAM Moms, of Warren, Warren county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved OlothesBar, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved clothes-bar which is simple in construction, and which caube folded very compactly when not in use.

The invention consists in the combination, with a hollow upright having offsets in the sides, the said offsets having openings, of a slide in the upright, and of arms or bars pivoted to the side edges of the slide and projecting through the said openings.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in

which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 isafront elevation of our improved clothes-bar, the same being erected for use, and parts being broken out. Fig. 2 is a sec tional plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a see tional plan view of theupright.

The upright is formed of a post, A, and a back, B, each provided with vertical groove 0 in its inner surface. The back Bis provided with flanges D, forming the side edges of the upright, and the front and back are united by screws or bolts. The upright is provided with legs E or any other suitable base. On the side of the upright is a series of offsets, F, which have horizontal tops G, and downwardly-inwardly inclined sides H. A slot is formed in the 'top of each offset. A sliding piece, J, is located in the vertical groove 0, and is provided with a button, K, projecting through a vertical slot, I, in the front.

each edge of the sliding piece J as many bars or arms L are pivoted as there are offsets F, each bar or arm being pivoted in a recess, M. in the edge ofthe piece J, the bottoms of which recesses are horizontal, and the backs inclined from the inner ends of the bottoms upward or outward. A slot, N, is formed in the bottom of the inclined part of each offset F.

The operation is as follows: To fold the clothes-bar, the button K is moved downward and the slide J is moved downward, andthere- 5 by the arms L are swung upward and against the sides of the upright,into the position shown in dotted lines, and the arms L resting against the inner surfaces of the inclined sides of the offsets F. To adjust the clothes-bar for use, the button K is pushed, and thereby the slide J is moved upward and the bars or arms L are swung downward into a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 1, the bottom edges of the arms L resting on the upper ends of the inclined sides of the offsets H.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent L b In a clothes-bar, the combination, with an upright having the offsets F, and the sides H,

inclined from the outer ends of the offsets down toward the vertical central line of the upright,

of a slide, J, between the uprights, which slide 

